Journal
LARYNGOSCOPE
Volume 122, Issue 6, Pages 1265-1266Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23270
Keywords
Taste; tonsillectomy; dysgeusia; gustation
Funding
- SSMBS [PASMA-119579/1]
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In a former study, taste disturbances after tonsillectomy seemed to be more frequent than expected. Eight percent of patients reported subjective taste disorders 6 months after tonsillectomy. Fifteen patients from the initial trial, who reported taste disorders after tonsillectomy, were contacted again for this long-term follow-up. A telephone interview using the same questionnaire addressing the current self-estimate of taste function was performed. At 32 +/- 10 months following surgery, two (0.9%) patients still reported suffering from taste disturbance. This long-term follow-up study shows that dysgeusia following tonsillectomy occurs in approximately 1% of patients. These data should be considered when patients are informed about complications after tonsillectomy.
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